Anger carries a lot of baggage. Musical tones, color schemes, physical sensations, and words can all convey this emotion, and the pictures above are compilations of people's feelings of rage.

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The far left is a strip of colors that people associated with anger, with the thickest bands representing the most popular colors and the thinnest showing the least. The figure just to the right is a scribble-drawing composite of many people's sketches depicting where they felt anger — this is followed by a drawing of where they felt anger when they could only express it as a single point. The last is a line drawing of the "direction" that they felt anger moving through them.

These were all compiled by Orlagh O'Brien for a project titled "Emotionally Vague." People were given pictures of human figures and asked questions about the "movement" of different emotions. They were also given a color chart, and asked to write down which colors they associate with each emotion. Lastly, they were asked to associate words with each emotion. Over 250 people from 35+ countries between the ages of 6-75 participated. The compilation of all of this data was put into charts and pictures, like the ones above. To see the complete results — which include anger, joy, fear, sadness, and love — visit the Emotionally Vague site.